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Issue # 501, Week of April 15-16, 2008
Publisher: David Riklan -
http://www.SelfGrowth.com
In this issue:
-- Quotes of the Week
-- Personal Growth Products and Services
-- Article: Finding Happiness - By Melissa Zollo
-- Article: Leading From Within: Creating Sustainable Change from the Inside Out
- By D. Luke Iorio
-- Book Review: Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life
from the Core - By Bruce D. Schneider
-- Brief News of the World
-- How to Subscribe and Unsubscribe from this Newsletter
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*** Quotes of the Week ***
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident;
they came by work. - Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, American Inventor and
Entrepreneur
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if
you try and fail, and fail to try again. - Charles F. Kettering, 1876-1958,
American Engineer and Inventor
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes
from within. It is there all the time. - Anna Freud, 1895-1982, Austrian-born
Psychoanalyst
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*** Article: Finding Happiness - By Melissa Zollo ***
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Imagine being able to handle a challenge, problem, or overcome an obstacle in
your life without being in a constant state of distress, panic, rage, or
depression.
Would you be happy then?
And does being able to meet, deal, and/or attempt to overcome problems,
conflicts, and difficulties have anything to do with increasing your levels of
happiness?
Recently, I met a woman who had the luxury of someone else supporting her so
that she could stay home, rest, renew, and recharge herself.
Instead, she spent her time worrying about what might go wrong. She was unable
to appreciate and enjoy the gift of time. Her thoughts actually reduced her
sense of pleasure and fulfillment.
Based on our conversation, she soon realized that her level of awareness
repelled happiness. Therefore, the beautiful gift had not acted as a cause or
stimulant to increase her sense of self-joy.
I then encountered a man who had been helped through many hard times, unhappy
relationships with family members, a financial crisis, and many difficult days
with his employer and co-workers.
One would think he'd be so happy and grateful, yet his behavior and
conversations mirrored a dampened spirit rather than a happy, grateful spirit.
He lived in a state of distraction and injury. He felt comfortable focusing on
crisis.
Again, he had received gifts, but his lack of recognition of them coupled with
his misuse of emotion and awareness left him unable to connect with his many
positive experiences.
I believe that many of us would deal with the unfinished business of our past
and develop emotional resilience if we knew for certain that our body produces a
chemistry that is a perfect match to our beliefs.
Science is now documenting what healers and mystics have known for centuries: We
are greater than any beliefs we have learned or acquired.
Our awareness of being along with each cell of our body holds the power to heal
us.
It is up to the individual to make time to recycle such life-denying emotions
such as anger, jealousy, worry, guilt, and hatred into life-affirming feelings
of happiness, joy, hopefulness, and love.
Regardless of our family tree, color of our skin, education, religion, or
lifestyle, when conditions are right, many limiting and negative memories can be
triggered and unwanted mental influences released, igniting us into actions we
really do not want to take.
Unless we understand that thought is creative and manifests itself, we will not
be inspired to change our mental blueprints, thought patterns, and emotional
moods in the moment.
Once we understand the language of our feelings without shame and decide to keep
on growing in the direction of honesty, clarity, and joy, we can eliminate many
negative expressions from our lives; gain better health; experience peace of
mind; find happiness and freedom from enslavement to false error patterns and
habits.
It seems that many of us take the long route around the mountain of
self-acceptance and self-approval because we have been programmed to live in a
toxic sea of mental and emotional poisons.
For some, the cure for being miserable is as simple as resolving what is
bothering them.
Through understanding and acceptance of some previously hidden memory or fixed
belief, they are restored. They are free to deal, feel, and heal.
Taking inner action opens the door to the present moment, and the journey to joy
and happiness begins.
For others, focusing on memories of happiness simply increases their happiness
levels.
The best tip I can share and the most valuable thing you will ever do while on
your quest for happiness is to take complete control over all of the suggestive
elements in your life.
* What are you listening to?
* What are your conversations with others about?
* Is your self-talk success talk?
* Or is everything that makes up your personal environment acting as an excuse
for you to perpetuate self-condemnation and pain?
The author John Dryden once said, "First we make our habits and then our habits
make us."
Are you in the habit of feeling frustrated and unhappy, or calm and peaceful?
Our level of happiness does not depend upon our possessions or anyone outside of
ourselves. It depends entirely upon our inner blueprints, desires, decisions,
focus, and connection to our deeper self.
Happiness is directly linked to the thoughts we choose to entertain and how we
respond to people and situations we encounter, moment by moment.
If each of us decides to cut short our visits into fearful, angry emotional
moods, we will easily shift our attention out of conflict and into resolution.
In time (and with practice) we will prolong our happiness responses, strengthen
our identification with uplifting emotional moods, expand our mind, and move
into joy-producing energy fields.
There is no one to change but ourselves.
It is up to each of us to enhance our ability to live happily ever after in the
here and now and influence the quality of our lives.
Never close a door on a dream -- your dreams are calling you!
About the Author:
Melissa Zollo, imagination and self motivation specialist, is the author of
"Discover the Power of Imagination" and "How to Unleash the Power Within and
Attract Money" CD audio programs. FREE daily tips and newsletter available at
http://www.PresentMemory.com
Check out the Experts page for
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*** Article: Leading From Within: Creating Sustainable Change from the Inside
Out - By D. Luke Iorio ***
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In most corporate cultures, the focus is on "What's wrong?" Very few of the
world's organizations are fed by creative and positive thinking that produces
questions like "What's right?", "What's the opportunity here?", and "How can we
make this work?" Yet these are the very questions that can produce thriving
organizations with strong profitability and a cohesive, even fun, organizational
culture.
The "What's wrong?" perspective leaves most employees and leaders today spending
a great deal of time focusing on "problems" with their jobs, their growing list
of responsibilities, and their colleagues. Not surprisingly, studies show more
than half of the nation's workforce would choose to quit if they could (Spherion
Corp., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Harris Interactive Inc., Rochester, N.Y,
2003). The average worker's job dissatisfaction is not based on wages, workload,
or long hours; instead, it is primarily due to "problems with leadership"
(Watson Wyatt, 1997, Gallup Organization, 1999).
Most staff members see their leaders as uncaring, uninspiring, and unfit to
lead. Leaders are confronted with an endless flood of problems, and solving one
problem merely clears the path for another to replace it. No longer simply
focused on increasing profits, leaders must also answer to their bosses and
their employees, resolve conflict, manage crises, develop effective teams,
maintain customer satisfaction, review employee performance, develop succession
planning strategies, keep on top of technology, deal with diversity, and stay
abreast of societal changes and employee expectations. They must do all this and
more, all while trying to remain healthy and balanced in their personal lives.
These pressures result in two common outcomes: The first is the "ostrich
effect," when managers bury their heads to disconnect from reality. This
approach creates absentee leaders -- people who are no longer actively involved
in the challenges of day-to-day operations and are emotionally disconnected from
staff members and their own feelings. They would rather avoid problems and hope
they miraculously work themselves out than risk diving into conflict and
creating an even more tense and undesirable working environment.
The second occurs when a manager takes on all challenges and tries to meet every
demand. The result is burnout. Since 2003, those actively looking for a new job
have ranged from nearly 40% to as high as 60% and higher.
Where do we go from here?
This is not an environment that employees or leaders want to work in. So how can
the shift from "What's wrong?" to "What's right?" occur? The change actually all
starts with one thing: Energy. That's right, Energy.
To become great leaders and solve long-term management challenges, managers at
any level within an organization must understand that transformation is not an
overnight process but instead a continuous journey toward self-actualization --
a process that includes learning how to help oneself and others accomplish more
than what was believed possible.
Great leaders understand what drives people and make shifts in themselves and
others toward new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. These shifts, which
stem from an understanding of how energy works, create the foundation for
success.
Great leaders understand that a company's best resources are human. Tapping into
the core of what drives and motivates people is the secret to uncovering the
source of power within the workplace. Understanding and positively influencing
the leader's own level of energy, as well the energy of their employees and
their organization, leads to solutions for almost all challenges.
Many leaders are experts in problems; some are experts in problem solving; and a
rare few leaders are experts who know it is not their job to solve problems, but
to create an environment that prevents them from occurring.
The recently published book, "Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and
Your Life From the Core," by Bruce D Schneider, Ph. D., founder and CEO of iPEC
Coaching, shows how leaders can create such an environment -- one that asks the
"What's right?" questions that lead to organizational and personal success.
Sustainable change begins from within. Shifting leaders' view of challenging
situations and interactions ripples through their communication style and
positively impacts their interpersonal skills and ability to lead when it's
needed most. Changing their perceptions to work for, instead of against them,
and breaking through internal and external blocks generates a synergy of
physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual strength that produces
extraordinary and sustainable results.
The principles of "Energy Leadership" show how someone can be at the cause,
instead of the effect of life, creating the success that they and their
companies deserve and desire, and revealing...the Leader Within.
About the Author:
D. Luke Iorio serves as the Vice President of Business Development and
Operations for iPEC Coaching --
http://www.iPECcoaching.com -- a leading institute for coach certification
training, leadership, and personal development programs, assisting them in
strategic planning, business development, sales management, new program
development and joint ventures, and establishing strategic alliances with other
organizations.
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*** Book Review: Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life
from the Core - By Bruce D. Schneider ***
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In "Energy Leadership," renowned coach Bruce D. Schneider teaches how to
understand the most important personal resource of all -- energy, and shows how
to harness it to achieve success in the workplace, the home, and in the world at
large.
This engaging and fast-paced story clearly explains how managers and leaders
from all walks of life can use the principles of "Energy Leadership" to inspire
themselves and others to achieve extraordinary results in whatever they do. The
author provides insight into a cutting edge coaching process he has developed,
which has positively impacted the lives of tens of thousands of people in both
the corporate and private sectors.
You will learn how to:
* Recognize the seven distinct levels that are the key to understanding why
everyone thinks and acts the way they do, in life and specifically within the
workplace.
* Distinguish truly effective leaders from those who deplete the energy of the
people around them, and specific techniques to shift energy levels to inspire
peak performance.
* Become powerful leaders who motivate themselves and others to reach their true
potential.
* Identify the Big Four Energy Blocks and discover proven techniques and
strategies for overcoming these and other obstacles to success.
* Develop the ability to shift internal energy to meet any leadership challenge,
and use this newfound power to inspire respect, confidence, and loyalty in
others.
If you always try to inspire others but sometimes feel like something's missing,
something is. "Energy Leadership" puts you in touch with the missing link
between your ambitions and your ability to achieve them.
Check out the Experts page for
Bruce Schneider, the Official SelfGrowth.com Guide to Life Coach and Life
Coaching.
*****
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go here.
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*** Brief News of the World ***
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Positive:
* Immelman man of the moment at Masters: Months after surgery to remove tumor,
S. African tops Tiger for first major *
Trevor Immelman felt goose bumps as he listened to a phone message left by Gary
Player, his childhood idol and the last South African to slip on a green jacket
at the Masters. Player told him to believe in himself, to be strong through the
adversity that was sure to find him during the wind-whipped final round at
Augusta National. "I took that all to heart," Immelman said after a three-shot
victory. "And I'm sure he's proud of me." For more than just his golf. (Click
here for complete news story)
* Former CNN anchor does the 'Possible' *
In a competitive and youth-obsessed business, most everyone gets The Call
sometime. For ex-CNN daytime anchor Daryn Kagan, it came in January 2006. She
was brought into an office and told that CNN would not renew her contract when
it expired at the end of the year. Kagan was lucky in one sense -- she wasn't
escorted out that day by security -- but by the first of September, she was
gone. Left with a personal crisis sadly familiar to many, Kagan reinvented
herself with a Web site devoted to telling inspirational stories. ... (Click
here for complete news story)
* Seattle man in treehouse gets a new home: Neighbors found an old RV for the 'Squirrelman'
to use *
A homeless man who has spent the past two years living in a treehouse has a new,
terrestrial home just in the nick of time, thanks to neighbors. David "Squirrelman"
Csaky, a self-taught carpenter, learned Tuesday that neighbors had found an
aging recreational vehicle for him to occupy. "I'm overwhelmed," Csaky said. "I
started crying when they told me." (Click
here for complete news story)
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Other:
* McCartney Pays Tribute to Late Wife's Work: Beatle Promotes Film Honoring
Linda McCartney's Photography Career *
She may have been best-known as the wife of a Beatle, but she was also a
famously vegetarian campaigner for animal rights, and, though many may not know
it, Linda McCartney was an accomplished photographer. Now, 10 years after her
death from breast cancer, Paul McCartney is putting his celebrity power behind a
tribute to her work on film, reports CBS News correspondent Richard Roth. (Click
here for complete news story)
* Leave this info out of your interview *
Everyone knows someone privy to sharing too much information -- the TMI, if you
will. TMIs have no boundaries and no shame. They will tell you any and every
piece of personal information, whether it's filling you in on her latest try at
the fertility doctor or the dream he had about your boss last night. Sharing too
much information with your co-workers is an office no-no; sharing too much
personal information during the interview is an entirely different ballgame. (Click
here for complete news story)
* 'Citizen Scientists' Watch for Signs of Climate Change *
Kite-flying Benjamin Franklin was one. So was President Thomas Jefferson, who
did important work in archaeology at an Indian burial ground. British chemist
Michael Faraday, who had only a grammar school education but discovered the
principles of electromagnetism, is a prime example. So is Jack Horner, the
world-renowned discoverer of dinosaur behavior and adviser to "Jurassic Park,"
who never finished college. All of them are among amateur or "citizen"
scientists who made important contributions to their fields without advanced
degrees or university appointments. (Click
here for complete news story)